musical foot comprising two short notes or syllables, followed by one long
Anapest
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Archlute
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a large lute popular both in Italy and England during the Renaissance with an elongated neck, fitted with two peg boxes, one…
Changing notes
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non harmonic notes; two notes, one that leaves the chord note by a tone or semitone, then leaps to the next non harmonic note…
Hemiola
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rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Hemiolia
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rhythmic pattern where two notes are played in the time allotted to three or where three notes are played in the time allotte…
Iambic
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a poetic and musical foot consisting of two syllables, the first short, the second long
String quartet
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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist
Triplet
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Cent
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logarithmic unit used when measuring the difference between two pitches in an equal tempered scale; one cent is one one hundr…